Dan Snow and Dan Jones Discuss 'The Coolest Man in Medieval History'

The Knight's Templar were a religious military order founded in 1119 and recognised by a papal bull in 1139. The order became one of the most powerful organisations in medieval Christendom, and a large supranational administrative network set up a complex financial system which was an early form of banking.

Here medieval historian Dan Jones takes Dan Snow through the Temple Church near Fleet Street in London, explaining how the order functioned and the involvement of one of medieval England's most famous knights.

They also agree that William Marshal, buried in Temple Church after joining the order on his deathbed, was probably the 'coolest man in medieval history'.

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